Schema: small dogs, yappy dogs Text-to-Self Connections: dogs who guard, dogs who chew things up Bertie, a small but clever dog, tricks a burglar who is not so smart into getting the police’s attention during a robbery. Synthesis: Discuss words with multiple meanings such a “watch” for a time piece and one who keeps watch. [...]
Teaching kids to think while reading is a goal I continue to reinforce all throughout the year. We talk about the text to text, text to self, and text to world connections that are explained fully by Debbie Miller in Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension to the Primary Grades. I would recommend this book to [...]
Schema: beginning first grade Text-to-Self Connections: being afraid to go to a new class, sharing what happened at school with a parent
Schema: getting a new pet Text-to-Text Connections: starting kindergarten, going to school, leaving a pet at home, and also learning new things like the puppy Students connect to following their teacher, listening to their teacher, and learning new things like the puppy. Students will also connect with wondering what their parents are doing while they [...]
Schema: African American Slavery, Native American Indians Text-to-Self Connections: playing with children different than yourself, helping others, disobeying about where to play outside Tim Tingle, a Native American Choctaw Indian and storyteller. This book would be a great one to share during African American History Month. The story shows the emotion of a family who [...]
The story is told from the point of view of the 12 year old main character. His grandmother gives him a riding lawn mower for his birthday. All of his friends are out of town for the summer so he decides to start a lawn mowing business that gets way out of control very quickly. [...]
Tall Tales is a very serious book that is for the older grade levels, but could be understood by a 5th grader. The story is told from the point of view of the middle child. She tries to keep her father’s problem a secret from her school friends. The problem that her father has is [...]
Schema: needing things, gardening, being lonely Text-to-Self Connection: eating potatoes In One Potato, Two Potato, the author retells an old folktale from China with an Irish twist. Text-to-Text Connection: The old couple in the book are named Mr. and Mrs. O’Grady. A previous book, Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong tells the same folktale [...]
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